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The first screenshot shows a pretty clear shot of the latter half, specifically the H58 part.

If you look at these other two shots, you can make out consistant shapes and angles of the different characters.

For instance, you can see that the second character has two vertical lines, with a section in the middle. If you compare the lowest part of this character with the middle to the H, it is higher than the center line of the H, which is consistant with how M's are printed on license plates.

The 7 at the end is trickier as there are no clear shots of the top, but you can see that the angle of the vertical line is skewed slightly to the right toward the center, again consistant with how 7's are printed.

The B at the beginning is the trickiest character, but as you can see in the first and second photo, it is very definitly flat on the left side, and there is something in the center, so it cannot be a D nor a 0.

So all things considered, I'm absolutely confident that it is BM1 H587.

EDIT: I've always read peoples remarks of "I posted this, went away and came back to eleven-infinity karma" and thought it was BS. I now know that not only is it possible, but it can make you feel like the prettiest princess at the ball. Thanks _^

I want to point out some really good work done by other redditors though who may have a clearer answer than the 15 solid minutes of work I put toward this than my actual job:

First off, cryptophreak was a total BAMF and created not just one, but two animated gifs of the license plate that I think cast shadow on my B theory. I'm no longer positive it is a B, but I'm not entirely convinced it is a D either. I've seen speculation that it's a U, but I don't think this is the case. WesTechNerd provided more proof that it may be a D but I am still not totally convinced myself. It is either a B or a D, though personally I still feel it's a B.

Another redditor, Skitrel, suggests that the second letter may be an N (and the first letter is a U). I still stand by my assertation that it is an M, but his image is pretty solid so it's possible.

xiccit created a stabalized video of the escape which they suggests shows the 5 is in fact a 6. It's difficult to tell, but they may be correct.

All y'all who knew what the make and model of this car are total badasses though. I don't know jack about cars, so kudos on that. And to everybody running the plates, I commend you. I only went as far as to look at some pictures, posted my thoughts and was like "WELP THAT'S ENOUGH INTERNET JUSTICE FOR ME", so high fives all around!

And to the person who Best Of'ed my comment, you are super rad. But I hesitate to call this case 'solved' until OP updates us on the situation. So let's see if OP delivers.

I'll wait a couple of years and then i'll see you write "I have you tagged as "Sonatapedia" for some reason". Then someone will bitch about people talking about RES tags and the world will continue to make sense to me.

Not to piss too much on your bonfire, but after taking a totally un-scientific survey of the Texas plates in my apartment lot, it's probably DM1 H587. D seems to be the most common letter for plates to begin with, and the Texas plate font makes the upper and lower halves of the B equal in size. From your pics, the top would have to be MUCH smaller than the bottom.

They do require your vehicle to have a front license plate unless they've changed the law. I don't know that they'd pull you over for not having one. If they did pull you over and you don't have one they might cite you for it if they were looking to write you up or they might just warn you about it if they weren't feeling dickish.

(I've been warned about no front license plate before, had the plate and bracket on the passenger floorboard. Ticket for moving violation but not cited for no front plate. Officer not feeling dickish.)

If anybody can identify the make and model of the vehicle, we can narrow down the possibilities. I'm running all of the suggested variants against Carfax. Of course, this doesn't mean much if we're working with stolen plates.

I was having no luck with New York which is what I thought it was at first, but Texas is bringing up all sorts of possibilities - meaning we're close. I bolded my favorite possibilities based on nickipedia's make and model guesses.

To all of the "What if this guy is lying" folks: I'm not. This happened at my work. My boss or anyone else didn't put me up to it, but I knew Reddit would be a helpful resource to catch this person.

We are looking at doing a remote working environment so we have some laptops in to test it out, that's why we had some laptops that were stolen.

We are good about security. We have keyed entries, locked doors, security cameras etc. This guy was casing the whole building, walked into an office during a lunch break or something and within 2 minutes grabbed two laptops and walked out. We're all really upset about it.

No client data was lost, nobody was hurt, no network security can be or was breached.

For the love of all that is holy, keep us posted on what happens with this. I cannot tell you the sheer amount of times that the OP never did any follow-ups, even after we spent hours of our own time trying to help.

I'm fairly convinced that the second last number is a 6, and what people are interpreting as an 8 is the colour contour of the Texas sky background. My guess is BN1-K567, or DN1-.... It would depend on when Texas started issuing D plates. Can't be O as they don't start with vowels.

I understand that it would be best if you found out the license plate number exactly but why not take the photo to the police? They can try multiple license plate numbers that it could be and see if they match with the car's model, make, and year. It just seems like that would be the fastest way. And if that isn't enough to convict the thief, they can check the serial numbers on the laptops. I'm just trying to help.

It's funny that people are downvoting you. My house got robbed, there was evidence left behind, with some effort they could have probably caught the theif.

Did they? FUCK NO, i couldnt even get a hold of an officer who was willing to help me reclaim my stolen stuff from a pawn shop. If it weren't for lazy fucking cops, i might have just a little bit of what was stolen from me. (absolutely everything i owned except an old TV and an n64.)

My garage in the alley behind our house was robbed of all the tools. On the same day, the garage in an alley behind the house of the fingerprint expert of the local police was robbed of all the tools. Cops ran the prints from the fingerprint expert's garage and caught the guy the next day. They refused to take prints from my garage, said they would be too deteriorated, etc. They pretty much refused to do anything except try and get all the details from my roommate and I like we were criminals. They asked us our heights, weight, hair and eye color. Went on and on with the questions till I said "we are not suspects, what are you going to do!?"

They did nothing. Found our engine lift at the criminals neighbors house. Cops still didn't care.

Turns out that the guy had a criminal record for robbery a mile long. Never served time except for marijuana possession at a concert.

I now believe that the police keep criminals on the streets so they can justify increasing taxes to fund raises and pensions. About a year later the city voted to pass a sales tax increase to hire 41 new cops. They instead hired 11 cops to replace others that retired early then gave the rest raises. No additional cops were hired.

Your story disgusts me. I showed the cop exactly where the crowbar marks, fingerprints, and shoeprints were. still nothing. not a fucking thing. they gave me the same bullshit line about deteroirating prints (RIGHT, they deteriorate within 7 hours of robbery. i'm sure.) Also, the fuckers took more than 6 hours (keeping me awake until well into the morning) to show up.

Sounds pretty corrupt. I have a friend who is a judge, and even he says that's the only reason the cops worked with him when his house was robbed. Also, he and his wife collected evidence since the cops wouldn't .

My boyfriend's car was broken into and the stereo/amp ripped out. We filed a report and asked if he was gonna fingerprint anything and the officer just shrugged and said, "Our print dust is black, your console is black. We ain't gonna be able to see no prints." and that was that.

As a forensic investigator who gets called out to LITERALLY EVERYTHING (being called to see if I could get paint chips off a nametag they suspected was used to cause mischief damage to cars - did not find a damnned thing, but still tried) I can tell you that your city is bad and you should tell your police department they should feel bad.

It really depends where you are. I would say call up your local department and complain. If they do not, complain to your mayor/local representative.

I had a lawn mower stolen out of my shed in downtown Atlanta (near the zoo). I called in a police report just so I could file an insurance claim. A few hours later 3 cops were in my back yard dusting for fingerprints. They never caught the guy, but I was impressed by the effort.

I know it's not your responsibility to prove anything here, but it's kind of pointless to say that their anecdotal evidence is meaningless because you have anecdotal evidence that says the opposite. Police corruption/inaction is a very real thing.

The people down-voting me are people who have never had to deal with the police doing police work other than signing tickets and arresting peaceful potheads. I have dealt with cops a lot in my life and they wouldn't do actual police work unless it was something they thought would get them a promotion or laid. Everything else, they don't give two fucks about.

House broken in to twice, motorcycle stolen, cars broken in to four times, and a meth dealer deals in front of my kids' playset. Oh forgot, a gun was stolen and from two seperate members of this guy's family I knew who stole it and who he sold it to. All I ever got was a lecture for wasting officers' time.

I took all three different images and screened each one over each other, unsharpened things, contrast, and a whole bunch of other stuff. You can see D might be the first letter, which makes sense because most license plates in Texas are Ds on the front. There is also not a thick enough line in the middle of the D shape to give it the distinct B shape. Look at the license plate alphabet on the image. The second letter is most likely an M because the middle line between the two bars is thickest in the center, not smooth like a blurry N line would be.

EDIT: Called Bissonnet Auto Sales, salesman was able to confirm to me they sold that vehicle with that plate number but would not tell me information regarding customer other than it was a male (wasn't expecting him to anyway because of privacy laws).

Well, I ran a couple of combinations, if you can tell me what state this happened in, I can tell you who it was. But without knowing where the state this happened in, I could be giving you different people since each state has different rules etc.

I tried to make out as much as possible on the plate number itself, by going frame by frame and it's still not all that good. The car looks like it's a 2008 Red Hyundai sonata. Not sure if they have the ability, but you should see if the police have the ability to look up partials, and do a search via the car tyupe to see if they have any matches.

And my stab in the dar, is DM1-H587, Which to me doesn't sound right.

look at the time stamp on the camera and toggle between 13:57:24:218 and 13:57:24:234

Take it to the police. They can try multiple license plate numbers. I should know, I have access to the databases and programs that have all of that information. If I lived in your area I could be of some assistance in trying to catch these guys. So go to the police and they will help!

It's possible it's just a shadow, (but the white cover never appears full in any frame) someone with better photo skills should take a look at the original AVI file. If the tail lights are broken and one is out, it's possible they've been pulled over recently and the police would already have all of their information.

Some more info to narrow down the car: those might not be that car's first set of plates. Texas moved to the seven digit plates in 2009. A 2007/2008 vehicle would have the old six digit plates. You get new plates every seven years or when the car is registered to a new owner. The car isn't seven years old, so that can't be the case.

The way I see it one of the following two things is true: 1.)the car was bought used, and got new plates; or 2.) the plates are stolen. Since it looks like the image-gurus are having trouble finding a vehicle registration that matches, the make, model, and the plate number and this guy has already demonstrated that he is a thief, I'm thinking it's the later.